BNE will continue to grow around 4-5% in 2012 with pax figures of about 21.25 million and aircraft movements of around 210,000-215,000 or 5-6% growth.New airlines possibly 3-5 covering FIFO and international services.Already Qantas has advertised DFW-BNE will go daily and Air Australia are planning to add another 10 flights a week to HKT,HNL,DPS and new routes to SGN,SHA are planned.Virgin are planning up to 78 international flights a week with increases to NZ ports as Air New Zealand reduce and also BNE-POM will go to 5 a week.In relation to Cargo Pacific Air Express will commence a weekly BNE-FIJI flight next month.There is also the possibility of a weekly BNE-SIN freight service operated by a American carrier.

Domestically we can see continued growth to the FIFO towns such as Emerald,Gladstone,Mackay,Roma etc with both Virgin and Qantaslink adding new flights in 2012.2012 should bring BNE new aircraft in 717,Fokker 50 and perhaps others.

Developments at the airport should bring a new domestic terminal car park ,more apron parking at the domestic ,a new viewing area for us spotters and commencement of early clearing works for the new runway.

Global Express VP-BEM arrived from Asia on 23 dec and today N550KF a G550 arrived from HTI .Yesterday first visit of Jetstar A320 VH-VGA which has the revised colours on the titling.Also new Virgin Australia 737-800 VH-YIE arrived on delivery as VBH 9080.Lot's of FIFO flights this week bringing the miners home for the XMAS break.Skytrans and REX operated extra flights the past few days.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

2012 i believe brings optimism at our local airports.Today i will look at OOL.

OOL (Gold Coast) What can we expect or predict.

With nearly 6 million pax annually i believe OOL will grow slowly again this year.Growth on domestic services may come from SYD and MEL once again.Tiger are planning a 2nd base from June 2012 possibly in Sydney.If this happens then you can be assured SYD-OOL flights will once again commence.FIFO may well finally commence from OOL in 2012 most likely to mines in Central Queensland.Who and what we will just have to wait.Internationally Air Asia X hopefully will increase back to daily again in 2012 .Other carriers i am not so sure.Scoot is a possible but with 400 pax in a 777 getting out of OOL'S current runway may not be obtainable.Trans tasman ops will most likely show some growth with all 3 carriers.

QANTAS will they or won't they come back to OOL.I believe they will come back later in 2012 with services to both SYD,MEL .

Air Australia announced yesterday 2 new routes out of BNE to Vietnam and China .Both services will be 3 a week subject to all the approvals.First flights will commence in June 2012.Brisbane has never been linked to Vietnam before and in the case of Shanghai(China) there are no flights currently as China Eastern no longer operate Charters there anymore from BNE.Apparently HNL is doing great with 92% load factors and BNE-MEL may return a profit from day 1.

Air Australia along with Virgin Australia are both BNE based airlines and this being a SE QLD blog we support them both .

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

BNE will be reunited with HNL from tomorrow .Last non stop flights was with Continental in the early 90's.VC001 will make 2 flights a week on Wed,Sat at 1800 hrs from BNE returning Mon,Sat at 1600 hrsSchedules will change after the first week to be Wed,Fri ex BNE and returning Fri,Sun.Flights will operate with a Airbus 330-200 VH-SSA.

Air Australia will also commence BNE-MEL twice daily MON-FRI from 15 dec and once daily on weekends.

TIGER Airways will commence a 4th daily BNE-MEL this friday night.TT 352 arrives BNE at 1905 and departs back to MEL at 1935 as TT353.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Friday, December 9, 2011

REX SF340 VH-ZXS just landed at YBBN.This is a former Happy Air Thailand aircraft with the green scheme.It is apparently to be based at BNE .US C130 164996 also inbound to BNE.AMSA DO 320 VH-PPJ also has just landed as well.

Today so far Beech 200's and a 300 have operated 10 departures and a further 10 arrivals .BNE-ClermontBNE-Dalby 2 flightsBNE-BundabergBNE-AlphaBNE-MiddlemountBNE-RockhamptonBNE-Sunshine CoastBNE-Toowoomba 2 flights

As well as this so far a further 10 movements have been RFDS medivac or NSW Ambulance flights.This number can be 2-3 times this number on busier days.Aircraft in today include VH-NSN,VH-EWG(1st visit),VH-LNJ,VH-SGV,VH-WXC,VH-KMS.